Q3DailyFive #8

9/24/25 #September
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[[Love of Exploration]]
[[Love of Reflection]]
[[Peaceful Days in Bangladesh]]

[[100 Core Terms]]
[[Sleep Smarter]]
[[Why We Sleep]]
[[The Origin of Consciousness]]
[[The Tipping Point]]
[[Mastery]]
[[Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman]]
[[Surfaces and Essences]]

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Good Morning, I am writing this blog, with the intention of going over some of my obsidian terms, which entails a lot of books that I care about, from Quarter 3 of 2025. And these are ever-evolving for me, and I actually named them evolution books, thus the title of the blog. I genuinely think these are some of the books that will help me evolve as a person. And I’m just going to go one by one, till I run out of time. The first book on my list is [[Sleep Smarter]], by [[Shawn Stevenson]], and I genuinely really appreciate this book, maybe not as much as [[Why We Sleep]], by [[Matthew Walker]], but regardless, this is another phenomenal book about sleep. I genuinely care a lot about getting proper sleep, but it’s sometimes hard to come by, especially when I get super excited, or I become stressed.

Thus, for me, learning the fundamentals of how sleep works, it is of paramount importance. Moreover, with the help of ChatGPT, and [[100 Core Terms]], I have come to understand sleep, and it’s amazing powers, to an even greater depth. For me, these books are mostly refreshers nowadays, as I just want to see what new things I can learn, from books that really investigate with scientific research. And [[Shawn Stevenson]], does a good job, simplifying some of the more complicated aspects. This is one of the books that helped me learn how important magnesium is, and overall, just understand how to maintain proper homeostasis, with the help of sleep. Therefore, just genuinely, how sleep is the best medicine, for us as human beings, I believe that with all my heart. And any abnormality with sleep, is a sign that the brain needs help and rest, so the body can properly heal. And sleep does that, to a extremely smooth level.

The second book I want to talk about is [[The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind]], by [[Julian Janes]]. This is an older book, from 1977, but it really does explain some of the things that I’ve learned throughout my study of general psychology pretty well. And it’s one of those books, that even [[Daniel Dennett]], [[Susan Blackmore]], some top name contemporary psychologists, they got their foundations from this historical book. I also appreciated it, because he really does go in-depth, with a lot of discussions in the realm of consciousness, and his understanding of how the human mind constructs the world. I also think this is a foundational book, in regards to understanding the human brain. And it’s a book that’s easy to digest.

The third book I want to talk about is [[The Tipping Point]], by [[Malcolm Gladwell]]. The Tipping Point is one of those books, that just has a great analysis of how things change. And it has some core concepts that Malcolm Gladwell explains well, with specific examples and stories that he conjured up, with his writing. So it’s a pretty cool book, to understand how threshold phenomena works. And I’ve been referencing the tipping point for awhile now, because I genuinely think a lot of things have threshold points. A similar book to this is, [[Mastery]], by [[Robert Greene]], which is also another evolution [[100 Core Terms]] book for me. Which I have fully gone over, to the best extent I can. And I read that book, back when it was released, in 2012, and I genuinely thought it was a really cool, in regards to how Robert Greene laid out how the masters of our history, the ones that were able to master their field and actually become masters. And it’s a really cool book, it’s also one of those books, that just makes sense to me, personally. At least back in the day, and that’s why I’m going back over it.

Finally, I have two more books that I want to quickly talk about, based on my [[100 Core Terms]], in the [[Evolution Books]] section, that I am going try to go over, as time permits. And these are, [[Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman]], and [[Surfaces and Essences]]. I wrote my first blog on this site, in regards to [[Richard Feynman]], because he genuinely is such a cool scientist, and his writing is super easy to understand, at least for me, as a result I was able to digest and retain a lot of his core ideology, and it really was interesting to hear his perspective. And the other book I mentioned, written by [[Douglas Hofstadter]], Surfaces and Essences, it’s one of those books, I think will live with me, for a long time. I genuinely think this book, in regards to how it defines analogy, I will use chunks of this knowledge for the rest of my life. This is one of those compounding return books for me, as I use it as a reference to get all the definitions with ChatGPT, in a way, with the help of analogy, to easily reference in my head. I don’t really memorize anymore, like I used to, with Anki, and Memrize, because concise analogy definitions really does help us learn and retain things so much faster and more efficiently. And I don’t know how much I have retained, per say, but I now have enough confidence to write blogs about it, and actually publish on this site. All these books I mentioned, these pretty much sums up most of my [[100 Core Terms]], in regards to [[Evolution Books]], that I am finishing up this quarter, of 2025.